Not sure where to begin? Consider this: Drawing is, in large part, about accurately assessing how wide, how long, and what are the angles. Get this skill under your belt and you are well on your way. Read on ... An Art Education: the straight dope.

Beginning to Draw: The Foundation of Art WorkshopInstant Video WorkshopRecommended for Beginners

Developing a rock solid foundation based on time-tested principles is the key to your success in learning how to draw.

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The ability to consistently get a remarkable likeness in your portrait drawing can be learned. But there is a skill-set that must be acquired. The first is the ability to strike the arabesque, that is the entire outside shape of the head. The arabesque encompasses the overall shape and proportion. From there, one constructs the portrait by fixing the facial proportions and then blocking in the initial tone.

Even at this very early stage the likeness of the sitter will begin to emerge in the portrait drawing.

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The Portrait Drawing Mastery StudioThe portrait drawing training program that takes you from Beginner to Advanced

This carefully designed program is your comprehensive portrait drawing education guided by a recognized master artist. Be prepared to leave all your excuses behind. The Portrait Drawing Mastery Studio contains everything you need to become a fully trained portrait artist.

Mastering Portrait Drawing 1: the frontal pose Instant Video DownloadRecommended for Beginners and those with some drawing experience

Being able to consistently get a remarkable likeness in your face and portrait drawing can be learned. But there is a skill-set that must be acquired. The first is the ability to strike the arabesque, that is the entire outside shape of the head. The arabesque encompasses the overall shape and proportion. From there, one constructs the portrait by fixing the facial proportions and then blocking in the initial tone.

Mastering Portrait Drawing: the 7/8's Profileis the second of my Mastering Portrait Drawing Workshops. Part one introduced you to all the fundamental techniques, now I take you on the next step of the journey and teach you all the procedures and know-how you will need to excel at the fine art of realist portraiture in the 7/8s profile view.

Mastering Portrait Drawing 3: Advanced Techniques & Considerations is the third and final workshop of the Mastering Portrait Drawing series. In this three and one-half hours workshop I comprehensively discuss and demonstrate the entire step-by-step process of drawing the portrait in sanguine conte from its initial beginning to completion.

The Practice of Tone for Portrait Artists Instant Download Workshop for Intermediate and Advanced

The Practice of Tone for Portrait Artists is a four-hour workshop that demonstrates the entire process of rendering form. Working solely within the facial arena I begin by quickly sketching in the features, followed by blocking-in the primary light/dark pattern before embarking on the long process of applying sanguine conte, stumping it in and then delicately lifting it with painterly strokes of a kneaded eraser.

My Drawing Hands Instant Download Workshop is a comprehensive 2-hours intensive on drawing hands. Comprised of four lessons beginning with the anatomy of the hand the workshop proceeds to a structural line drawing; then to a tonal rendering in graphite pencil. The workshop concludes with a comprehensive demonstration lesson on bringing a hand to full resolution in sanguine conte. A must for any Portrait or Figure artist and anyone who wants to master Drawing Hands. Also included is the companion ebook Anatomy of the Hand.

This 84 page Ebook is your comprehensive reference for portrait drawing anatomy. The skeletal and musculature of both the frontal and 7/8’s profile view are presented indepth with detailed, full color images and descriptions that can be magnified for easy study.

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Drawing Drapery

Drawing Drapery is an excellent vehicle for training yourself to draw from life and understanding the modeling of form. As a subject matter in it's own right drapery can be used creatively in endless ways for painting and drawing.

Most painters striving to seek out a better art practice are stymied by the lack of available cohesive training. Most acquire their painting education piecemeal, whether it be a disjointed series of workshops or a 1 hour video that offers a few 'tips' The unfailing result is a piecemeal understanding. Hardly a sound foundation upon which to build your career.

There are two components to building your foundation: The first is knowledge-based, the nuts and bolts of terminology (whose sole purpose is the expression of implied intentions), color and composition theory, anatomy, pigments and mediums, etc.

The second is your practicum. This is your studio work where you digest and put into practice your acquired knowledge. The purpose of a sound foundation in drawing and painting is to give you the means to steadily push back the limits of your ability.

Master paintings, the great ones of which Clara Serena is well within the upper ranks, change as they are seen over the decades of one’s life. We experience great works of art differently when we are older than in our youth.

Studying and copying master works is the most efficient training that one can pursue: beginners can be assured that they are on the right track and advanced artists will discover deeper layered meanings and techniques.

Painting Clara Serena takes you through the entire process from the preparatory drawing to the underpainting, to the abozzo (the initial coloring in) to the final painting.

Painting Clara Serena | Learn to paint portraits in oil from A to Z! Only $127

The four principles of composition are: the harmonious divisions of pictorial space (this is Symphonic Composition, also known as Dynamic Symmetry), the Notan, the Patterning and Color.

Notan is a Japanese word that means light/dark harmony. It is one of the four principles of pictorial design that literally stick paintings to the wall and grab the viewer. When paintings work in black and white--they work!

Patterning is the arrangment of shapes that define your subject and narrative (the story you want to tell). A good Notan is fully dependant upon a strong patterning.

For every artist who strugges with wishy-washy paintings and strives to become a better painter there is no surer route than acquiring an understanding of composition.

Paintings built upon a solid composition of harmonious unity project a directness and simplicity that is felt on both a conscious and subconscious level. The viewer's eye is able to take in the entire composition at once and be moved by it.

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The Symphonic Composition Workshop was filmed live at the Vancouver Academy of Art in May 2003. Not only will you see Michael Britton presenting the keys to composition step-by-step, but unlike the workshop enviroment, Mr. Britton has enhanced the lesson plans with numerous special chapters that are available only in the instant download video workshop. This Workshop is for all levels of painters. It incorporates a layered, step-by-step approach to learning and assumes that you have very little, if any, knowledge of geometry.

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Color is the prime material of painting; it is the spirit and core of visual art making and, like music, color notes guide and move the viewer throughout a painting in a logical and transcendent sequence. Applied Color Theory is much more than just a compilation of art theory ...this is a hands on workshop.